식이성 인삼을 저 단백성과 고 단백성 사료에 혼합한 먹이로 키운 흰쥐에 ethanol을 복강내 주사한 후 흡수된 혈액 ethanol의 제거율을 효소학적으로 측정하였다. ethanol을 복강내 주사하고 3.5시간 후에 혈액내의 잔여 ethanol을 측정하였던 바 식이성 인삼투여군이나 인삼과 30% casein 투여군에서 모두 차이가 없었으나 혈액내 주정 제거율은 암컷에서 우세하였다. 그러나 ethanol을 복강내 주사한 후 2시간에는 차이를 볼 수 없었고 성별에도 영향이 없었다. 간 homogenate 용액내의 alcohol dehydrogenase 활성은 in vitro 실험에서 숫컷군이 우세하였다.
Upon feeding dried ginseng to rats on either low-protein or high-protein diet ethanol was administered intra peritoneally and disappearance rate of blood alcohol was enzymatically measured. In terms of residual blood alcohol after a time lapse of 3.5 hours between IP alcohol administration and blood withdrawal neither ginseng nor ginseng plus 40% casein did improve the rate of alcohol clearance but sexual difference was clearly demonstrated in favor of female rats. However this difference was no longer detectable in the case of blood with drawn only 2 hours after IP injection of alcohol neither the treatment nor sexual difference did influence the amount of blood alcohol. Liver homogenate alcohol dehydrogenase activity measured in terms of residual ethanol contents after in vitro reaction to which a known amount of alcohol was added clearly demonstrated a male superiority in alcohol clearance.
